{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2019-10-02T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "tcpdump: Out of bounds read/write in in get_next_file() in tcpdump.c",
    "id" : "1760457",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1760457"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.0",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-119",
  "details" : [ "The command-line argument parser in tcpdump before 4.9.3 has a buffer overflow in tcpdump.c:get_next_file().", "An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump while reading the file passed to the -V option of the command line program. An attacker may abuse this flaw by tricking a victim user into using a malicious file with the -V option, which would make the program read one byte before a stack-based allocated buffer and potentially write a NULL byte to it." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2020-11-04T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2020:4760",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "tcpdump-14:4.9.3-1.el8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "tcpdump",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "tcpdump",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "tcpdump",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14879\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14879" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2018-14879",
  "csaw" : false
}